Jackson Woods
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| Full name | Jackson Woods | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1993 Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Flyweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Latrobe Boxing Club | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jackson Woods (born 1 February 1993 in Latrobe, Tasmania) is an amateur boxer who has represented Australia at the World Youth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. He was selected for the 2012 Summer Olympics in the flyweight division.[1]
Woods began boxing in 2006 and won the Tasmanian junior title that same year. He has appeared at the Australian titles every year since then. In 2010, he won the Australian title, earning him a trip to the World Youth Games in Baku where he made the quarter-finals. In 2011, he went to the Commonwealth Youth Games on the Isle of Man where he won a silver medal in his weight class.[2] In 2012, he stepped up to senior level winning both the Australian and Oceania titles and earning a place at the London Olympics.
References
[edit]- ^ "2012 Australian Olympic Team: Jackson Woods". Australian Olympic Committee.
- ^ "Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 - Boxing - Flyweight Men". cyg2011results.com. September 2011.
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Flyweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Australia
- Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
- Sportsmen from Tasmania
- People from Latrobe, Tasmania
- Australian Institute of Sport boxers
- Australian male boxers
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen